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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day. Players, coaches and families marching down Hertel Avenue and Opening Day ceremonies at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo on Saturday May 7, 2016.

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Bystanders watch as Hertel North Park Youth Baseball league on Opening Day players, coaches and families marching down Hertel Ave. and Opening Day ceremonies at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday May 7, 2016. (John Hickey/Buffalo News)

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day. Players, coaches and families marching down Hertel Avenue and Opening Day ceremonies at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo on Saturday May 7, 2016.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day. Players, coaches and families marching down Hertel Avenue and Opening Day ceremonies at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo on Saturday May 7, 2016.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day. Players, coaches and families marching down Hertel Avenue and Opening Day ceremonies at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo on Saturday May 7, 2016.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day. Players, coaches and families marching down Hertel Avenue and Opening Day ceremonies at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo on Saturday May 7, 2016.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day. Players, coaches and families marching down Hertel Avenue and Opening Day ceremonies at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo on Saturday May 7, 2016.

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Former MLB Player Joe Winkelsas greets Mark J.F. Schroeder, comptroller of Buffalo. Both played in the Hertel North Park Youth Baseball league and were there on Opening Day marching down Herterl Avenue and at Shoshone Park in Buffalo on Saturday May 7, 2016.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day. Players, coaches and families marching down Hertel Avenue and Opening Day ceremonies at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo on Saturday May 7, 2016.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball league on Opening Day .

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball parade Opening Day Parade for youth ball players in Hertel North Park Youth Baseball. The ceremonial first pitch.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day. Players, coaches and families marching down Hertel Avenue and Opening Day ceremonies at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo on Saturday May 7, 2016.

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Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown speaks on Opening Day at Hertel North Park Youth Baseball league at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo on Saturday May 7, 2016.

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Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown speaks on Opening Day at Hertel North Park Youth Baseball league at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo on Saturday May 7, 2016.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League on Opening Day.

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Betsy Foglia, right, and her daughter Ally, 6, left, of the Shamrocks at Hertel North Park Youth Baseball parade and Opening Day ceremonies.

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Mayor Brown warms up before he threw out one of the first pitches at Hertel North Park Youth Baseball Opening Day ceremonies.

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Former Hertel North Park Youth Baseball player Dennis Mason threw out Opening Day ceremonial first pitch at Shoshone Park.

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Mayor Byron Brown at Hertel North Park Youth Baseball threw out Opening Day ceremonial first pitch at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball league players Dennis Mason 1958 - 1960, who threw out ceremonial pitch to his granddaughter Ellie Robertson, 13, who's a catcher and caught the ball for him.

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National Anthem sung and players from San Francisco stand by on Opening Day for Hertel North Park Youth Baseball at Shoshone Park in Buffalo.

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National Anthem sung and players from San Francisco stand by on Opening Day for Hertel North Park Youth Baseball at Shoshone Park, in Buffalo.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball league player Joe Winkelsas, left, who played in the majors and Mike Abendschen, 8, talk.

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Hertel North Park Youth Baseball league Blue Jays player Isa Drayton warms up on Opening Day.